John Kenney is one of six brothers. In 2019, when his brother Tom, a firefighter who spent a week at Ground Zero in 2001, was dying of cancer, Kenney went to visit him one last time. As they were ...

JOHN KENNEY: (Reading) Bud Stanley, the first man to perform open heart surgery on himself, died today in a hot air balloon accident. He was 44. His wife, Miss France, has confirmed the death.

Two days later, writing in the New Yorker, John Kenney imagined Mueller as a restaurant waiter: Diner 1: Hi there. How are you? Mueller: I can’t answer that question. Diner 1: What? Mueller ...

Anyway, that’s what John Kenney manages in his latest novel, and I am deeply grateful to him for doing so. Death is everywhere in I See You’ve Called in Dead. Bud Stanley is a middle-aged ...

"Truth in Advertising," the first novel from New Yorker humor contributor John Kenney, looks a lot like one of those "whiny man" books — books that, as the fiction editor for this newspaper once ...

John Kenney is one of six brothers. In 2019, when his brother Tom, a firefighter who spent a week at Ground Zero in 2001, was dying of cancer, Kenney went to visit him one last time. As they were ...